Well, the palette for Babymouse just seemed a natural because Jenny, when she was a girl pink was her favorite color. I think it was, actually I don’t know if it was her favorite color, or if my mom felt bad that she was the only girl with all of these boys, and she tried to overcompensate, and so everything in her room was pink, you know, you had pink bedspread, pink wallpaper, pink carpet, that kind of stuff, so it was like a lot of pink.
And so I think, that memory of what it was like for her as a girl just meant there had to be pink in Babymouse, so that seemed natural.
And then for Squish we actually had a hard time figuring out what color to make Squish. When I was doing the early drafts, when I was working on the early art, and we were still trying to think of what we should do, whether it should be a blue or a green, or a yellow, or something we didn’t know. I was actually working in purple at the time, so I wouldn’t influence us, so we wouldn’t be stuck with some like early blue that I just picked.
And we were like, well, we’re used to that, so we’re going to go with that. And then we’re racking our brains, like should it be, like a watery blue, because he’s in a pond? Or more of an oceany blue green? Or a forest green? A grass green? And finally Jenny said, “You know what? It should be pond scum green.” So she actually got a photo of some pond scum off the internet, sent it to me, and I used that to sample the color, and that’s how we picked the color green that we use in Squish.
